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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Paralana Creek (part of the Beverley Project). Annual reports for the period 29/9/2009 to 15/11/2015.
Work undertaken on EL 4378 during the 2009-2010 reporting year included the drilling of 478 vertical rotary mud holes totalling 132,960 m, and core drilling totalling 4117 m performed in 16 of these holes for stratigraphic unit / resource...-
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Published: 24 Dec 1915
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Starvation Lake. Progress reports and final report on regional exploration programme at licence surrender, for the period 13/1/1972 to 31/7/1972.
In a search for possible economic roll-front, blanket style uranium deposits within Tertiary sediments in part of the eastern Frome Embayment, the licensee undertook 1:75,000 scale geological mapping and exploratory auger drilling of the Quaternary...-
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Lake Frome Project. Individual licence annual reports, joint annual reports and final reports to various constituent licences' joint full surrenders, for the period 16/4/2009 to 5/6/2015.
An area centred ~36 km west of Quinyambie Homestead has been explored for possible buried economic sedimentary uranium mineralisation of palaeochannel hosted roll-front style that may have formed in relatively more distal Tertiary basinal sediments,...-
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Published: 30 Mar 1915
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The Curnamona North Project. Joint annual reports and joint final report to the majority of licences' joint full surrender, for the period 16/7/2007 to 29/10/2015. EL 5322 final report to 15/7/2017.
A large, 3370 square km area of the Strzelecki Desert lying over and to the south-east of Lake Callabonna, and extending as far as the SA-NSW State Border, is being explored for possible economic buried sedimentary uranium mineralisation thought to...-
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines' discretion] : North Mulga, Wooltana and Paralana areas (Frome Basin Project). Joint annual reports for the period 24/9/2012 to 31/12/2018.
The continuation of Heathgate's programme of exploration for economic buried Tertiary sediment-hosted uranium mineralisation within part of the north-western Frome Embayment during 2012-2013 has comprised exploratory drilling of 36 vertical rotary mud...-
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Lake Frome South and Lake Frome North (the Wertaloona Project). Joint annual reports to licences' surrender, for the period 8/11/2010 to 3/9/2013.
The southern half of Lake Frome salina, centred about 80 km south-southeast of the Beverley uranium mine, has been explored for possible commercial quantities of dissolved lithium and uranium. Interest in the former commodity was engaged by the...-
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Published: 11 Oct 1913
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Callabonna [Creek] (part of the Curnamona North Project). Annual and final reports to licence surrender, for the period 30/9/2009 to 23/8/2011 : no work performed.
Exploration for possible economic sandstone-hosted Tertiary palaeochannel uranium deposits within two small licence subareas located near Callabonna Creek immediately north-east of Lake Callabonna has consisted only of indirect participation in a...-
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Published: 01 Jun 1911
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Data release - as updated [made at SA Director of Mines’ discretion] : Lake Callabonna / Petermorra (part of the Lake Elder Project). Annual reports for the period 19/3/1998 to 30/4/2015.
Exploration Licence 2494 was granted in March 1998 to Paladin Energy Minerals NL and Brightstar Power Corporation Pty Ltd - the Paladin Brightstar Joint Venture (PBJV), with Paladin Resources NL as manager. The target commodity being explored for by...-
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Published: 20 May 1915
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Oolgelima Creek. First annual report plus final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 31/8/2012 to 30/8/2014.
Three separate small areas on the eastern edge of the Stuart Range, that are located 30 to 45 km north and north-east of Coober Pedy, have been explored both for possible buried Proterozoic basement-hosted IOCG-style mineralisation and for large...-
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Published: 10 Oct 1914
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Lake Cadibarrawirracanna. First annual report plus final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 31/8/2012 to 30/8/2014.
An area centred over Lake Cadibarrawirracanna, which is located ~70 km east-northeast of Coober Pedy, has been explored both for possible buried Proterozoic basement-hosted IOCG-style mineralisation and for large sedimentary evaporite occurrences of...-
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Published: 10 Oct 1914
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Benagerie Ridge Areas A to E (initially the Curnamona IOCG Project, and later becoming part of the Curnamona South Uranium Project). Joint annual reports to licences' respective or joint (final) surrender, for the period 25/5/2005 to 9/6/2015.
Five conjoined exploration licences covering the buried central and northern Benagerie Ridge basement province that is comprised predominantly of Mesoproterozoic volcanic and intrusive rocks, have been explored for possible economic iron oxide -...-
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Published: 14 May 1915
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RB 2014/00005 WINTINNA, South Australia, [geological map] sheet SG53-14. South Australia. Geological Survey. 1:250 000 Series - Explanatory Notes.
The WINTINNA 1:250 000 mapsheet area lies between latitudes 27° to 28° South and longitudes 133°30’ to 135°00’ East. This ~16 400 square km area includes the Marla and Cadney Park settlements, and is crossed by the Stuart Highway and Adelaide to...-
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Published: 01 Mar 2015
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Beverley Uranium Project - Groundwater resources, management and monitoring.
The technical development and operational commencement stage of the Beverley in situ leach uranium mining project are herein discussed from the viewpoint of hydrogeological factors. The author summarises the uranium deposit's hydrogeological setting...-
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HandBk 005 - Opal: South Australia's Gemstone. Barnes L.C. et al. (1992 revised edition)
South Australia's famous desert opalfields supply about 80% of the world output of precious opal, with current production coming almost entirely from the major fields at Andamooka, Coober Pedy and Mintabie, each of which is expected to increase output...-
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Allandale. First annual report to licence renewal, for the period 5/12/1994 to 31/5/1995.
Following recognition of the likely young age of the sources of the Abminga area magnetic anomalies, and the discovery of a number of diamond indicator minerals in sediments to the west of the Peake and Denison Ranges, the Allandale joint venture...-
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ExpNotes WINTINNA: Explanatory Notes WINTINNA
A new generation, first edition WINTINNA 1:250 000 scale geological map and explanatory notes have been published. These documents represent the conclusion of the Geological Survey of South Australia's geological mapping program undertaken in the...-
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RB 2018/00001 Regolith hand specimen atlas for South Australia
This regolith material hand specimen atlas displays 246 images of 212 regolith samples which have been collected over the last 30 years by the authors, present and past Geological Survey of South Australia (GSSA) staff and members of the Cooperative...-
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Published: 01 May 2018